In Order To Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

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'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.'Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea.... Read more

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'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.'Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die - from starvation, or disease, or even execution. This book is the story of Park's struggle to survive in the darkest, most repressive country on earth; her harrowing escape through China's underworld of smugglers and human traffickers; and then her escape from China across the Gobi desert to Mongolia, with only the stars to guide her way, and from there to South Korea and at last to freedom; and finally her emergence as a leading human rights activist - all before her 21st birthday.

Customer Reviews
5 stars

Life in North Korea laid bare

I would highly recommend this book to anyone who has already read Dear Leader by Jang Jin-Sung. That book details the inner workings of North Korean propaganda, and the authors daring escape from their regime.

This book almost serves as a follow up by giving insight into everyday North Korean life is like, the crushing burden that the state puts on families, and how their deprived of information about the outside world, and how it is all bound up by propaganda. After her sister flees the country Yeonmi and her mother realise they have no choice but to escape too, leaving her father behind (his whole family will be arrested if he leaves). They find people willing to smuggle them into China, but knowing so little about the outside world they don't understand that they're sex traffickers. Their next few years are spent being sold as wives, all the while trying to find Yeonmi's missing older sister Eunmi, and searching for a way to South Korea.

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